TIM COOK THE MORAL BEACON: SJW bullies always seem to pick soft targets in their moralistic preening. Apple’s Tim Cook never met a progressive movement he didn’t like — check his Twitter feed — but when it comes down to hard choices that might actually cost him money, well, that’s another story…

China appears to have received help on Saturday from an unlikely source in its fight against tools that help users evade its Great Firewall of internet censorship: Apple. Software made by foreign companies to help users skirt the country’s system of internet filters has vanished from Apple’s app store on the mainland. One company, ExpressVPN, posted a letter it had received from Apple saying that its app had been taken down “because it includes content that is illegal in China.”

It costs nothing to demand that bakeries make gay-themed wedding cakes or that the military pay for gender reassignment surgery. But helping the world’s most repressive regime keep their citizens away from free speech and democracy? Inconceivable!